Nippon Kaigi

Nippon Kaigi is a Japanese nationalist association that was founded on 30 May 1997 by Koichi Tsukamoto. The group, strongly monarchist and denialist about history, sought to promote "patriotic education", the revision of the Constitution of Japan, support for official visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, and Shintoism. Nippon Kaigi's views were controversial, as it sought to allow for Japan to have a standing army, as well as to deny the Rape of Nanking and other war crimes committed by the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. The group came to have 38,000 members, and it was influential in the government due to its close ties with the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan.